This is a black-and- white photograph of an unknown couple that Radostin Sedevchev found already appropriated by an unknown ‘decorator’. Part of it —the portrait of the woman— is I covered with a piece of torn variegated wrapping, carefully adjusted so as, through a small hole in a ‘key’ place, to be able to see only the necklace around her throat. The status of the object as an authentic document has already been brought into question by the strange intervention, but, according to Pierre Nora, in the culture of archiving, ‘it becomes impossible to predict what should be remembered… and everything becomes an archive’ that may be needed one day. The artist allows himself absolute freedom of interpretation, repositioning the photograph in the domain of mass culture and naming it with the aphorism attributed to Jacqueline Kennedy. The wording of the title is behind the object itself and the viewer has to make an effort to read it. 

Iara Boubnova